dangoldin

Both my wife and I have also lost notes in Evernote. I'm a paying member and just last week exported everything out into text files within Dropbox. I have to get the workflow right but at least I know my files won't disappear.

Happened to my dad as well. He couldn't get accepted into a PhD for quantum physics so ended up studying physical chemistry.

Nice post. Something similar that was posted on here a while back is the "Interactive Guide to Blog Typography": http://www.kaikkonendesign.fi/typography/

I've been hosting my personal blog on GitHub pages for a year now and it's been great. One shortcut I took is starting with Jekyll Bootstrap (http://jekyllbootstrap.com/) instead of starting from scratch.

Oh nice. Reminds me of a hackathon I did a while back where I tried to implement a connect 4 AI bot using a genetic programming approach.

Here's the code: https://github.com/dangoldin/connect4bot

And here's a writeup: http://dangoldin.com/2013/11/30/genetic-programming-connect-...

Yep! That's pretty much what my attempt turned into after trying to do it on my own. It took me 4 hours though - still better than the 24 they said it would take.

Yea. It's expected and probably still easier than doing the same in the US. I'm sure it affects common people a lot more than the actual terrorists though.

That's surprising. I'd think locals would know where to go and who to talk to get everything working. As a foreigner it's tough to know what to expect and different places will tell you different things.

I guess the 300 rupees was the foreigner tax.

Ha - there's another post right now that's talking about how tough it is to open bank accounts in the UK due to the "terrorism" protection laws. It's usually the common folk who get screwed with the new processes.

If it gets too hard to do this people just come up with hacks around it. Similar to how a stranger at the hotel just vouched as a reference without knowing me very well.

Hmm. I never noticed it. If true that's pretty crappy.

I expected this to be something more abstract so the concrete examples of factual inaccuracies were interesting.

My dad claims to have answered that the US was a financial oligarchy when asked what type of government the US had on his citizenship test but I suspect that was a joke.

Interesting - thanks for sharing that. It highlights the disconnect between the theoretically correct solution and the practical one.

What a timely post! I'm in Delhi now for a wedding and there's definitely a ton of celebration going on. Here's hoping this gets past the honeymoon phase and turns into something bigger.

I find it amusing that they propose a Bayesian approach since PG contributed a fair deal to spam detection a decade or so ago.

It could also be done via client side JS. Load the first 2 pages of results with the true scores and then use JS to add the randomness factor.

This way the page can be cached.

John Resig talks about a similar problem and a potential solution - http://ejohn.org/blog/fixing-google-analytics-for-ghostery/

I was relying solely on the Ghostery numbers. In theory I should use a headless browser that executes to the JS to track everything it's doing but that's still on my to do list.

Yea - this was more of a quick write up and this is a good excuse to jump into the PhantomJS world to see what's actually happening. Once I get to that I'll do a follow up post.

Thanks. One of these days I'll take a stab at using PhantomJS and trying to pull this data for more sites.

I think that people blame the ads for the performance and experience issues and that's what causes them to search for ad blockers rather than the getting rid of ads for the sake of getting rid of ads. I might of course be wrong.

Definitely. Time to start writing it now in time for the hardware to catch up!

Ah thanks for that. I failed at Googling for it. Wish there was an easy way to get at the raw data though - have a list of these libraries by site.

I think the biggest benefit of a universal income is to remove the perception that unemployment is a bad thing. Now to reduce unemployment there's a fair amount of menial labor and policies encouraging it. If countries didn't have to worry about their employment levels I suspect they'd be a lot more willing to embrace new approaches.

Unless being a part of YC adds value which I suspect it does. Impossible to really test this unless YC would provide the same level of support and resources to other companies.

I remember my dad getting a promotional shirt for OS/2 with the caption "Flight 4.0 to Chicago has been delayed, I'm taking off with OS/2"

The idea being that Windows 95 was internally called Windows 4.0 with the codename Chicago.

I keep on searching for it but can't find it anywhere.

And Bill Gates on OS/2 in 1987: "I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time."

Pretty interesting to look at the last transaction date. For the most part it looks as if they've been pretty inactive lately.

Yep - http://mail.office365.com/ is down for me in New York.

What's the alternative? I like having Disqus since it's a decent UI and I get to host completely static sites for my blog.

I actually tried compiling a list of all the new shortcuts but it felt that even the shortcuts got more difficult. I gave up after that.

A Sierpinski gasket? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierpinski_triangle

It can also be generated by doing mod 2 on Pascal's triangle.